What Miuccia Prada, Karl Lagerfeld, and Alessandro Michele in particular seem to understand is that the next generation of buyers wants to be able to try on lots of different personas at once, as opposed to aligning with a singular vision.

The singular zeal with which America is producing safe assets could lead to more trouble in future, by deepening the world’s dependence on Treasuries while making an eventual fiscal reckoning more likely.

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Origin and Etymology of singular

Middle English singuler, from Anglo-French, from Latin singularis, from singulus only one — more at single